Who makes A.J. Hawk's Mount Rushmore of Ohio State LBs?

By Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor, 4 years ago

Who makes A.J. Hawk's Mount Rushmore of Ohio State LBs?

By Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor, 4 years ago

Former Ohio State standout linebacker and current Green Bay Packer A.J. Hawk stopped by the BTN studio Tuesday. With his Packers on a bye week, Hawk took the time to be a guest analyst on #BTNLive. Watch video of Hawk’s appearance above. Before Hawk went in front of the cameras, BTN.com asked him a handful of questions we received for him on Twitter.

We’ll get to the tweets in a moment. First, let’s get to his interview on #BTNLive.

BTN.com:I know it’s difficult to do, but give me your Mount Rushmore of Ohio State Linebackers.Hawk: That’s a great one. There’s so many! (Chris) Spielman’s up there. Obviously, everyone loves that guy. He’s the man. I’m going to go out on a limb and a guy that was an intern coach when I was there: Steve Tovar. Tovar, I love Tovar. He’s a great coach and a great guy. A guy who gets overlooked, I think, is Marcus Marek. And (Randy) Gradishar, I’ll put him up there.

BTN.com:I have to ask you this: Braxton or Kenny?Hawk: It’s a good problem to have, I think, as a coach. You have two stud quarterbacks who can play. But, obviously, Braxton’s the guy, and Coach Meyer has said that a lot. But they do feel confident in Kenny. When your backup can come in and throw that many touchdown passes, it’s a nice thing.

Hawk: I don’t really have one. I was always kind of scared to get stuck into something that I had to do every day. But I honestly can’t think of one thing that I do before every game. The music I listen to kind of changes from year to year, depending on what’s going on at that time. Other than trying to check out a few pictures of my kids on the phone before I go out on the field, that’s it.

Hawk: I had a bunch, so it’s hard to narrow it down to just one. If I have to narrow it down to one, I’d say winning the national championship my freshman year against Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. It’s tough to top that one.

Hawk: I don’t know about coaching. I’m not that good of a coach, and telling people what to do is not really my thing. I don’t know, that’s why I’m dabbling around in stuff like this (guest analyst on #BTNLive). I like the whole commentator thing.

Hawk: Probably all the relationships I made through there. I live in Columbus now in the offseason. My wife’s from there – I met my wife toward the very end of college. I’m still friends with so many guys I played with. Still really close friends with Bobby Carpenter and Anthony Schlegel, two of the linebackers I played with, who still live in Columbus. Things like that, just forming lifelong friendships.

BTN.com senior editor Brent Yarina covers football and men’s basketball for BTN.com. He writes the popular uniform feature “Clothes Call,” which also focuses on the latest cosmetic changes across Big Ten arenas and stadiums. Read all of his work here. You can subscribe to Yarina’s RSS feed and follow him on Twitter @BTNBrentYarina.